Fourth edition HH Teacher's ˆ Book ` John and Liz Soars OXFORD z Héadway What’s different about The world’s most trusted English course New Headway Beginner, Fourth edition? A perfectly-balanced syllabus with extensive resources at all levels for students and teachers s_In-depth treatment of grammar e Integrated skills throughout e Full support in print, on disc, and online Headway Beginner, Fourth edition English for the true beginner TếẩCherS Beginner Teacher's Book, Fourth edition for lesson preparation Resource Disc and in-class support— with a Teacher’s Resource Disc for ready-made, customizable worksheets: Tests Activities Grammar For teachers * Teacher's Book with improved TRD * New iTools for your digital classroom * Class Audio CDs For students * Student's Book with iTutor to help you Revise > Review > Improve * Workbook with iChecker to help you Assess > Progress Headway and its award-winning authors, John and Liz Soars, are names that have become synonymous with English language teaching and learning. The Headway course is renowned worldwide for its clear understanding of teacher and learner needs. New Headway Beginner, the Third edition, is now known as New Headway Beginner, Fourth edition STARTER (SB ps) [CD 1: Track 2] Smile, greet the class, and say your own name — Hello, I’m (Liz). Point to yourself to make the meaning clear.
Point to the speech bubbles and play the recording. Invite students to say their own name, including the greeting Hello. If you have a very large group, you could ask a few students to say their name and then get students to continue in pairs. Keep this stage brief, as students will have the opportunity to introduce themselves and each other in the next section.
WHAT'S am/are/is, my/your 1 [CD 1: Track 3] Focus attention on the photo of Pablo and Mika. Point to the conversation on p6 and ask students to read and listen. Demonstrate these actions to the class if necessary. Play the recording through once.
Play the recording twice more, first pausing at the end of each line and getting the students to repeat as a class. Students then repeat lines individually before practising the conversation in open and then in closed pairs (see Teaching beginners - tips and techniques, TB p6). Encourage an accurate voice range - the amount by which pitch of the voice changes. (Many languages do not use such a wide voice range as English so this needs to be actively encouraged.) Also make sure students can accurately reproduce the contracted forms I’m and name’.
If necessary, model the sentences again yourself to help emphasize the pronunciation in a visual way. GRAMMAR SPOT Focus attention on the contractions. Ask students to circle the contracted forms in exercise 1. Demonstrate this by writing the conversation on the board and putting a circle round the first contraction I’m.
2 This is a mingle activity. Demonstrate the conversation with one student to the rest of the class. Then ask another two students to repeat the conversation in open pairs (see Teaching beginners - tips and techniques, TB p6). Demonstrate the meaning of ‘stand up’ and get the students to move around the class practising the conversation.
You may like to encourage them to shake hands as they introduce themselves, particularly if they don’t know each other. Monitor and check for pronunciation. INTRODUCTIONS (38 p7) [CD 1: Track 5] Focus attention on the photo of Judy Koblenz and Robert Smith on p7. Point to the This is.
conversation and ask students to read and listen. Play 1 [CD 1: Track 4] This section gets students to the recording through once. Play the recording again practise introducing each other, still using just first and get students to point to the correct characters as names. Focus attention on the photo of Pablo, Ben, and they are referred to in the conversation.
Point to the conversation and ask students Play the recording twice more, first pausing at the to read and listen. Play the recording through once. end of each line and getting the students to repeat as Play the recording again and get students to point to a class. Students then repeat lines individually before the correct characters as they are referred to in the practising the conversation in open and then in closed conversation.
Encourage accurate stress in the key expressions Play the recording twice more, first pausing at the Nice to meet you. end of each line and getting the students to repeat as And you. Students then repeat lines individually before practising the conversation in open and then in Point to the gapped conversation. Choose a confident closed pairs.
student to demonstrate the conversation with you to the rest of the class. Choose two more pairs to practise the Encourage accurate pronunciation of the short sound conversation in front of the class. Remind students to /1⁄ and of the linking: smile and shake hands when they say Nice to meet you. /ðIS 1Z/ [CD 1: Track 6] This activity gives students this is Ben further practice, using other English names.
Check 2 Point to the gapped conversation. Choose two students understand the male and female symbols in confident students to demonstrate the conversation the activity by pointing to male and female students and with you to the rest of the class. Introduce the students then to the correct symbol. Play the recording through to each other and encourage them to shake hands when once and let students just listen.
Play the recording they say Hello. Choose two more groups of three to again and get students to repeat each name chorally practise the conversation in front of the class. Focus attention on the conversation Divide the class into groups of three and get each with James Bond. Choose a name for yourself and student to take it in turns to introduce the other two.
demonstrate the mingle activity with two or three Monitor and check for pronunciation and intonation. Get the class to stand up and move Depending on the class, when the activity is over, you around the class to practise the exchanges, using the may like to ask one or two groups to go through the new names. Monitor and check for pronunciation. conversation again while the whole class listens.
If students sound rather ‘flat’ when greeting each other, model the conversation in exercise 4 again, emphasizing ADDITIONAL MATERIAL the voice range needed and the correct stress. Workbook Unit 1 SUGGESTION Exercises 1 and 2 Introductions If appropriate, you can play a memory game based on the students’ names. Ask one student to go round Nice to meet you the class saying everyone’s name while the other 3 This section focuses on introducing people in a slightly students help if necessary. Encourage students in a more formal context, giving surnames as well as first multilingual group to pronounce everyone’s name names, and practising the phrase Nice to meet you.
as accurately as possible. Write it on the memory game yourself, too, to make sure you have board: (Liz) is my first name. Then say your surname remembered all the students’ names!) and write it on the board: My surname is (Brown). Repeat I’m (Liz Brown) - (Liz) is my first name, ADDITIONAL MATERIAL (Brown) is my surname.
Then ask a student whose first name you know: Mayumi - Mayumi is your first Workbook Unit1 name, what’ your surname? Elicit surnames from other Exercises 3 and 4 Nice to meet you students. Monn cella cic) GRAMMAR SPOT 1 [CD 1: Track 7] Focus attention on the photo Focus attention on the gapped sentences. Elicit the of Pablo and Ben in conversation 1 on p8. Check word to complete the first sentence with the whole students can remember the names of the characters by class as an example (7m).
Then ask students to asking Who’ this? Refer students back to the photos complete the other sentences. on pp6-7 if necessary. Point to conversation 1 and ask Answers students to read and listen. Play the recording through once.
How are you? Focus attention on the photo of Ben and Mika in This is John. Check students can remember the names of the characters. Follow the same procedure Read Grammar Reference 1.3 on p123 together as for conversation 1. If students query the difference in class, and/or ask students to read it at home.
between Fine, thanks. and Very well, thank you., explain Encourage them to ask you questions about it, in that they are both possible answers to How are you? L1 if appropriate. Play the recording twice more, first pausing at the end of each line and getting the students to repeat as a Focus attention on the photos and conversations. Students then repeat the lines individually before to your students and say You are students in a language practising the conversations in open and then in closed school.
Point to the characters in the photos and say pairs. Encourage accurate stress and intonation on the They are students in a language school. questions: Give students 30 seconds to read the gapped SN conversations. Hold up the book so the class can How are you? see the photos.
Read out the first line of the first _ ‹ conversation and point to the female character in the And you? photo. Ask Ana or Mario? (Ana). Point to the male and ask Who’ this? (Mario). Elicit the identities of Carla Ask individual students How are you? to elicit the and Max, and Eda and David in the other photos.
answer Fine, thanks/Very well, thank you. And you? Reply to each student in turn. Make sure students It is a good idea to write the first conversation gap-fill realize that And you? requires an answer Fine/Very on the board and do it with the whole class, as students well, thanks. may not be familiar with this kind of exercise.
Write students’ suggestions (right or wrong) in the gaps. Get students to ask and answer you and each other Give students time to complete the second and third in open pairs across the class. It may be helpful to conversations. You could put them in pairs to try to gesture to your partner when you say And you? to aid do the task together.
Go round and monitor, but don't comprehension. correct any mistakes yet. Students now have free practice in a mingle activity. [CD 1: Track 8] Play the conversations for (You may like to develop a gesture which means students to listen and check.
See if they can hear and ‘mingle’) Focus attention on the speech bubbles. If correct any mistakes themselves before you offer necessary, check comprehension of OK, fine, very well correction. Then check the answers with the whole with simple board drawings of faces — a straight face class. for OK ©, a half smile for fine ©, and a full smile for very well ©.
Get the students to move around the class Answers and tapescript practising the conversation. Monitor and check for 1 A Hello, My name’s Ana. What’s your name? pronunciation and intonation. B My name's Mario.
2 A Max, this is Carla. Nice to meet you. How are you? B Fine, thanks, David. And you? A Very well, thanks.
Get students to practise the conversations first in open pairs and then in closed pairs. Monitor and check for accurate pronunciation. If necessary, model the conversations again, either yourself or from the recording, and get students to practise again. Let students refer to the photos, but discourage them from reading the conversations word for word, as they will lose the correct intonation and not make eye contact with the other students.
(If appropriate, get them to stand up, as this often encourages a more dynamic performance!) If you think more practice is needed at this stage, get students to repeat the conversations using their own names. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL Workbook Unit 1 Exercise 5 How are you? EVERYDAY ENGLISH.